Garment supporter



' M. STARMERQ GARMENT SUPPORTER.

APPLICATION men JULY 8. 1920.

Patented Sept. 27, 1921.

UNITED STATES};

P TENT OFFICE.

MARY STARMER, or rinwron r Nn'ws, vmeimn;

GARMENT surron'rna 3 Application filed July 8,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARY STARMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at -Newport News, in the county of Warwick and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Supporters, of which the following is a speciiication. g

The present invention relates to an improved garment supporter designed especially for use in connection with mens garters, to provide a limb encircling device of this character that may with facility be applied and used, and with equal facility may be taken off with convenienceand despatch. The invention also contemplates an improved adjusting buckle or device for altering the size of the encircling web of the'garter to shorten or lengthen theleg band, whereby the adjustment may be quickly made, and

1 the buckle, when properly. adjusted, will be efficientin holding the adjusted loop of the web in permanent relation to the garter. Further advantages are secured by the utilization of the device of myinvention in that a comfortable and proficient garment supporter is provided at a comparatively inexpensive cost in production, and durability for the garment and neatness in appearance are secured.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated one complete example of the physical embodiment of my invention in which the attaching devices and adjusting devices of the garment supporter are combined and arranged according to the best mode I have thus far devised for the practical application of the principles of my invention. 7

Figure 1 is a plan view of a mans garter involving the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a view in perspective, showing the two members of the clasp device at the ends of the encircling web.

Fig. 3 is a top edge View partly in section of the loop end of the encircling web or body of the garter showing the manner of forming this loop.

Fig. 4 is a perspective View of the adjusting buckle, detached.

Fig. 5 is a top edge View of the tab end of the web. V

In the preferred form of the invention illustrated in the drawings the encircling web 1, which may be of elastic fabric, is of Specification of r a rsr tnt. Paten'tedSept. 27, 1921.

1920. Serial No. 394,618.

the required length and width for comfort and convenience in use. The web is fashioned with two tabs 2 and 3 to which is sewed the front padt, composed of the complementary tabs and 6, these parts being stamped out of theoriginal materials and of duplicate sizes to provide neat and finished suspending members forthe end tabs 7 and 8, preferably of webbing. The hose-clasping devices or buckles 9 andv 10 are attached at the ends of the webbing tabs 7 and 8 for securing and suspending, the hose at two points near the upper edge thereof, in order to secure a comfortable and neatly appearing support. 1

' The two ends of the leg band or encircling web 1 are joined near the front by two clasp members 11 and12,the member 11 being a socket member of the clasp and secured by its U-shape plate 13 to one end of the web 1. The socket member is of sheet metal and the end of the web is passed around the extremity of edge of the U-shape plate and thelatter clamped by suitable pressure over the end of the web.- The front face plate 14, parallel with the U-shape plate is joined thereto by the narrow end plate 15, and integral prongs 16 are provided on the face plate for clamping in the web at the front.

By utilizing the clamping U-shape plate and those prongs, the socket member of the clasp is securely attached at the end of the web to afford a secure holding structure for the clasp member. In the'narrow end plate 15 is fashioned an L-shape slot 17, with which the head 18 ofthe clasp member 19 co-acts in clasping or connecting the two ends of the web.

The head member 19 of the clasp is an integral U-shape metal plate, which, at its back is provided with a Vertical slot 20 through which the loop end 21 of the band 1 is passed, between the face plate and rear plate of the head member;

The extremity of the loop end 21 of the I web is attached to an adjusting buckle, indicated as a whole by the numeral 22. The buckle comprises a rear wire bar 23 vertically disposed, around which the end of the web 1 is passed, andthis rear bar is fashioned with a pair of horizontally disposed bends 241,24- formed as spurs extending through or puncturing the material of the loop end near its extreme edge, to retain the web. Integral with the rear bar are a pair of short front bars 25, 25, one bending upwardly from the lower end of the rear bar, and the other bending downwardly from the upper end of the bar 23, to form an open loop through which the main portion of the web 1 is passed. The adjusting buckle, through the instrumentality of this open loop may when the buckle is released, be slipped along on the web for adjusting the encircling length thereof. Each of these short front bars is fashioned with a horizontally extending resilient, curved prong 26, bent at right, angles to their respective front bars, and sharpened at theirends to engage the outer face of the web and hold it against slipping through the open loop of the wire, except when the prongs are released.

For releasing the prongs to enable adjustment of the loop for shortening or. lengthening the encircling web or band, I utilize a lever plate 27 which is cut out and fashioned with ears 28 surrounding the short front bars 25. Thislever plate is located at the front face of web 1 and conceals the wire bars and prongs, as well as affording a brace for the prongs. The lever plate is pivoted on the two front bars 25 and affords a finger hold when sliding the adjusting buckle, of which it forms a part, to adjust the loop end of the web. When turned to locked position the cam plate clamps the prongs against the web 1, and when turned to open position the lever plate withdraws the pointed prongsfrom the ,web enabling the buckle to slide on the web. The length of the encircling web, or belt, may be increased by shortening the end loop andthe encircling length of the web may be shortened by lengthening the end loop.

While I have described my invention as applicable particularly to mens garters, it will be apparent that the devices of-the invention may be equally well applied to waist encircling belts and other similar articles.

WVhat I claim is- 1. The combination with an adjusting buckle having a rear bar formed with spurs and upper and lower front bars forming a loop, of a web slidable in said loop with its extremity passed around said rear bar and punctured by. said spurs, retaining prongs on the front bars to engage the web, and a locking lever on said front bars.

2. In. an adjusting buckle the combination with the rear bar, of upwardly and downwardly extending integral front bars forming. an open loop, retaining prongs formed on said front bars, and a buckle lever having ears pivoted on said front bars.

3. An adjusting buckle comprising a rear bar fashioned with angular bends forming puncturing spurs, upper and lower, integral parallel front bars bent from said rear bar to form an open loop, bent retaining prongs projected from said front bars, and a lever buckle having ears pivoted on said front bars to engage said prongs.

MARY STARMER. 

